Shutter #13

Leila del Duca's cover for Shutter #13 sets a wonderfully strange scene: a composed young woman in white sits at a café table, calmly cradling a cup while an unsettling blue creature looms at the foreground edge and a crowded room of fantastical, animal-headed patrons fills the arched hall behind her. The juxtaposition of her easy poise against such bizarre company captures everything that makes this 2015 Image series so compelling. With Joe Keatinge's story "I Was Someone Once" and colors by Owen Gieni lending the scene its moody golden warmth, this is a fine chapter in one of indie comics' more imaginative adventures.